Eric, with hat.
Taking notes during a brief between-blizzard break in Chile.

WRITING: I'm the author of Darwin Slept Here (Overlook Press, February 2009), a history and adventure-travel biography of Charles Darwin's four years in South America. I've also worked a number of writing jobs, going all the way back to a two-year stint in the offices of the Castro Valley High School Olympian. (Note that at least half that time was spent playing video games with the cartoonists; the other half was spent less seriously, although I did win an award at a national high school journalism convention.) Since then I've been a general assignment intern reporter at the North County Times in San Diego, a copy editor/page designer and writer at the empire formerly known as ANG Newspapers (this was in the pre-Mercury News/CoCo Times days), an intern at the Bay Area's best alt-weekly, the East Bay Express, a regular contributor to the now-defunct Los Angeles Times Outdoors section, a freelancer for several Bay Area magazines including San Francisco and California, and of course, the guardian and custodian of Peaches the Nexus News Shark (also: editor in chief) at that marvel of rub-off newsprint, the University of California, Santa Barbara Daily Nexus.

For more career information, here's a resume. You can also find me on Facebook.

For further reading, these are a few of my favorite published stories: